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Greater Anglia services from Wickford to Southend Victoria will close from 21:25

As a result of overhead line renewal works, all lines will be closed between Wickford and Southend Victoria from 21.25. The last through train services will be the 20.35 Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria and the 21.00 Southend Victoria to Liverpool Street services.

After this time, buses will replace trains as follows:

From 21.25, rail replacement bus services will operate between Wickford and Southend Victoria with the exception of the following services:

The 00.18 and 00.50 Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria services will not run. Passengers for Southend should travel on the 00.18 or 00.50 (retimed from 00.46) Liverpool Street to Witham services and then change at Shenfield for bus services forward to Southend and intermediate stations.

20:08

Greater Anglia services between Shenfield and Gidea Park affected

TODAY: Due to high output ballast cleaning, two lines are closed between Shenfield and Gidea Park from 21.25. Journey times will be extended by up to ten minutes - https://t.co/s2E27UfIwB

17.40 Liverpool Street to Colchester Town starts at Colchester at 18:49

17.52 Liverpool Street to Clacton starts at Colchester at 18:54

18.05 Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria has been cancelled

18:10 Liverpool Street to Norwich starts at Stratford at 18:17

18.13 Liverpool Street to Cambridge starts at Tottenham Hale at 18:25

18.25 Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria has been cancelled

18.32 Liverpool Street to Walton-on-the-Naze starts at Chelmsford at 19:05

18.45 Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria has been cancelled

18.48 Liverpool Street to Clacton starts at Colchester at 19:44

19.08 Liverpool Street to Ipswich starts at Colchester 20.08

19.30 Liverpool Street to Norwich starts at Colchester at 20:20

17:28KEY EVENT

Passengers slam "dangerous" overcrowding

Chelmsford station has been extremely busy over the last few days (Image: Lewis Taylor)

Lewis Taylor, 28, from Chelmsford, said:

I got to Chelmsford station at around 7:50am this morning and platforms were severely overcrowded and becoming dangerous as you couldn’t stand behind the yellow line. Then one train left which was so crammed I couldn’t get onto. Greater Anglia had hundreds of people on Twitter asking what was going on. It’s absolute chaos. People are passing out which I have witness myself last night.”

Ticket restrictions have been lifted

#LondonLiverpoolStreet - Ticket restrictions will be lifted and tickets from Greater Anglia Main Line stations will also be valid on our West Anglia services. C2C will accept Greater Anglia tickets during peak periods. EC...